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Gregorio Castillo, the husband of former Parish Pastoral Council President of Saint Augustine Parish, Sister Mila Castillo, passed away yesterday. Let us pray for his soul. may he rest in Peace.

GOSPEL REFLECTION: 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B) Sunday, 2nd August 2015 by Rev. Fr. Allen Baclor Abadines READINGS: First Reading: Exodus 16:2-4,12-15,31a Resposorial Psalm: The Lord gave them the bread of heaven. Second Reading: Ephesians 4:17,20-24 GOSPEL : John 6:24-35 When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were at the place where Jesus had given the bread, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal." Then they said to Jesus, "What must we do to perform the works of ...

Lord, we thank you for the goodness of our people and for the spirit of justice that fills this nation. We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the land and the challenge of the cities. We thank you for our work and our rest, for one another, and for our homes. We thank you, Lord: accept our thanksgiving on this day. We pray and give thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. R: Amen.

(Somebody sent it to me and it is worth to share it with you through this blog) A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, Raised a glass of water and asked; 'How heavy is this glass of water?' Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.' He continued, 'And that's the way it is with stress management.. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, As the burden becomes increasingly heavy, We won't be able to carry on. ' 'As with the glass of water, You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're...